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by javagram 7y ago
> If Esper and Mattis have to testify, they will say that the contract was awarded fairly and based on a neutral and thorough review of both proposals, and that Microsoft's offer fulfilled the needs of the DoD better. You are making
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by javagram 7y ago
If we got in a war with China and soldiers fought each other, we wouldn’t try to charge the soldiers with crimes after the war for killing our soldiers, even though murder is generally worse than hacking. (Excepting war crimes, but is hacki
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by javagram 7y ago
If you are in a “working environment” and you are working for a large corporation, your IT department should be doing this for you using the archiving / retention systems built into G Suite / Office 365 / whatever mail server
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by javagram 7y ago
FWIW I don’t believe the Catholic Church teaches a “10% of their salary” tithe at all. Certainly not in the way some other churches do. The church in the USA receives funds from passing the plate, but European Catholic Churches historically
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Much of the estimated wealth is real estate (churches, schools, universities, hospitals) and artwork that should not be sold as it is being used for charitable or religious purposes or exhibited to the public. It’s hard to estimate since th
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The phone being unreliable and constantly shutting down would arguably be a way more effective method of “planned obsolescence”. My 2015 MacBook Pro has the issue of shutting down or turning off when still at 20% or 30% battery and I find i
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> The justification. The problem isn't a doctor refusing because they think it is harmful, the problem is a doctor refusing because they think it is harmful against established science with no science to back up their own position W
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it won't delete everything but it will make it harder to find, and it isn't clear that every tweet is available through the Internet Archive. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2018
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> A lot of people replace their phones on a 2-3 year cycle. If you could get a new battery for $30 and install it yourself in 30 seconds, would people be throwing less phones out? For apple products specifically this isn’t a big issue. I
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You can go into the App Store settings and disable auto-updating. Seems like that could fix the issue for you? One used to be able to back up apps directly to Mac or PC via iTunes but it seems like that ability was lost in 2018, now that I
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The article is a rebuttal to a previous submission that got some comments and discussion, "Houston's sprawl drives up transportation costs (texasmonthly.com)" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22095609
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Is Houston Less Affordable Than New York?(economics21.org)
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A lot of native mail clients don’t work well with GMail labels or “archive” feature. Labels are represented in IMAP as individual folders, so emails get duplicated multiple times locally if they have multiple labels. Also, Filters and other
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by javagram 7y ago
Savings accounts aren’t inflation protected. You can buy inflation protected assets - US series I savings bonds, and they offer between 0 and 0.5% fixed rate historically on top of inflation and are limited to $10,000 per person per year. A
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> However, median transportation costs were $1,152, a figure 38 percent higher than for New Yorkers. In total, the study found, living in Houston was only $79 cheaper each month than New York. What isn’t clear to me from this if if the m
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> They threatened to close in NYC if they had to support gay partner's benefits in the city. FYI, while true as a historical matter (this was done in 2010 according to a google search), I believe this is outdated. https:/&#x2F
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Over the past few decades there has been a period of re-urbanization and migration from rural to urban areas due to changes in the job market. For instance, Washington DC had 802,000 residents in 1950. Later the population dropped to 572,00
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by javagram 7y ago
We absolutely have the technology to go to Mars. We could probably have sent a manned mission to Mars in the 70s with the same technology level that took us to the moon. It’s just that it would cost an incredible sum of money for very littl
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by javagram 7y ago
Elon’s predictions have been wildly out of touch with reality when it comes to self-driving. In Jan 2016: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/686279251293777920 “In ~2 years, summon should work anywhere connected
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AAPL and similar stocks do show their share price changing in response to financial announcements, sales numbers, etc. This concern is valid but I believe it only prevents price movement once a much larger majority of the market is passivel
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> While it's true that increasing supply would help relieve some of the pressure, it would have to skyrocket to keep up with the meteoric rise in income of the top 10% of the population How many % of available units do you think the
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What exactly is the difference between a luxury and non-luxury condo/apartment? I think it’s mainly a few cheap cosmetic features like countertops and stainless steel refrigerators. Of course developers label everything new luxury beca
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Fuel prices in the USA are quite low. There isn’t much demand for a plugin hybrid. People looking for “green” cred and branding may go straight to an electric car, while everyone else buys SUVs and light trucks.
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Nonprofits are corporate entities too. The Citizens United case, the most recent Supreme Court case striking down restrictions on political speech, was about a nonprofit organization opposed to Hillary Clinton. The government tried to shut
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by javagram 7y ago
Could Chernobyl have turned Ukraine into an unlivable country though? I’m not sure of the science behind that claim. Presumably the larger the radioactivity was dispersed, the weaker it would be. Obviously it was not a good thing, and could
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Chernobyl exploded and caught on fire and burned, leading radioactive smoke to spread hundreds of miles. Isn’t this similar to the scenario you propose? We’ve already seen what happens (42 immediate casualties, 1000s of cancer cases). But E
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by javagram 7y ago
> This is the US, the chances of him serving all 10 years is slim, probably parole out after a few. Also anytime he already served in jail will go towards his sentence. He is serving federal, not state, prison time. “Parole out after a f
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> I don't understand why the people at the local Starbucks who work much harder than me are making on the scale of ten-folds less. The society explicitly and intentionally maintains that situation by maintaining the very low minimum
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This article itself is about someone who is on Medicare (government-run health insurance) getting a surprise bill because the hospital has mis-assigned his procedure to the wrong category to allow them to run up the bill. FTA: “In a feeble
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by javagram 7y ago
I believe the reason they are banned is to avoid a situation where doctors refuse to accept patients who only have Medicare-for-all insurance, and only care for patients who have private insurance. Since private insurance is willing to pay

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